roomkeeper

English

Etymology

room +‎ keeper

Noun

roomkeeper (plural roomkeepers)

1. A person employed by a hotel or similar establishment to clean, maintain and restock the rooms.
   • 1974, Bruce H. Axler, Room Care for Hotels and Motels, page 55:

     While the vast majority of guests are polite, pleasant, and appreciative of the importance of the roomkeeper's work, there are others, on occasion, who are silly, rude, overbearing, intoxicated, menacing, or annoying.

   • 1997, The Rooms Chronicle, volumes 5-9, page 70:

     However, if a one-half hour meeting means one less room accomplished per roomkeeper, the housekeeper is challenged to cover this time somehow.